BattleCON G10 - KingdomAces (Lixis) vs. Zorblag (Seth)

[KingdomAces]

Wait, I apparently completely forgot why I wanted to clash in the first place. Editing one or both of the above this game related posts.

[Cybele]

yeah im really glad the alt ua exists because i kond of love the idea of marm, but shes hopeless without better stun avoidance as is. hoping this will be the change she needs. incidentally i refamiliarized myself with lymn and its appropriate that shes the dreamer -- because wow does she look like a nightmare to fight. :p
for that one style, can soak stack with sufficient disparity? it says her effects are cumulative but i think soak doesn stack so i guess the soak 5 would replace soak 3? and not become the truly horrific soak 8

[Cybele]

nvm i looked it up. soak does stack. ow

[KingdomAces]

My resources are saying that it's Soak 2 at Disparity 3, and Soak 3 at Disparity 5, so cumulative it would only be Soak 5.

[Cybele]

hah i misread it. transposed the disparity reqs with the soak values

[KingdomAces]

And if anything I think the equalizing factor here is that the Disparity is never going to get too large with this matchup. Disparity 7 is the absolute biggest it can possibly get, most of the time it will probably be far smaller than that, so Lymn will never get any of her powerful effects. Maybe Chimeric's 4+, but I don't see anything needing more than that actually activating.

[Cybele]

fair enough (although dont overlook the +2 priority from force gauge antes). im entirely game to take on lymn either way. im just gonna be spending much of the match tripleguessing myself each beat :p

[Zorblag]

So for this beat I'm pretty sure I haven't left the corner. Position would be

SLooooo

And Force caps at 10, though that's unlikely to play too much of a factor.

Still haven't looked at options for what to do yet.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Zorblag]

Spoiler: Beat 11 Attack Pair

Mimic's Grasp!

Letting you confirm your attack and ante before I ante this time around (because of the different than expected board position and Force Gauge for you.)

[KingdomAces]

Grasp doesn't allow me to not move you, and space 3 is the only place I can move you to. Am I missing something here?

[Zorblag]

I forgot Grasp and was reading what you typed as oSLoooo (I thought you had me advancing 1 space for some reason.)

Let me see if that changes what I'd want to do. I don't think so, but let me look.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Zorblag]

Hmm, I think I'll leave it I guess.

You're happy with your attack pair?

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[KingdomAces]

That's what I had initially, then edited it after I realized that was stupid. I think I thought I used a +0~1 range attack and pulled you, but then I changed it when I saw the mistake.

[Zorblag]

OK. That makes much more sense then. Yeah, good, I'm not losing it quite that much.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[KingdomAces]

That attack is assuming oLSoooo. If that's the case I'm fine with it.

[Zorblag]

OK, Ante Beyond Eyes Lance.

My plan still works as well as it would have before. Actually a little bit better in a couple cases maybe.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Zorblag]

No, nevermind, I still lose to the same thing I did before, just in a different spot.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[KingdomAces]

Pass

[Zorblag]

Pass.

Now we see how much you hurt me.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Zorblag]

Apparently I view Lance as a much bigger deal than you do. (Though it was more so in the position I thought we were in.)

Looks like you get to move if you want. I'll follow.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[KingdomAces]

Eh, should have just used Strike.

Advance 3 to ooooLSo, then I take 1 damage, going down to 12?

If we were in the position you thought we were in, I definitely would have used Lance. In this position though, you could just Dodge backwards.

[Zorblag]

Yeah, you say definitely, but then you'd have to expect me to expect it and who knows from there. I'll pull you 1 which I expect you to not take due to rooted.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Zorblag]

And past that it's been a long week, so I'm off to bed.

That wasn't as bad as the beat I feared it would be, (nor as good as the one I'd hoped for.) And I've at least got some more options for the next one. I'll have to sort through them later.

Still, advantage Lixis in a pretty big way I think. I can't win by doing 1 damage a beat from here on out and I need to connect in a bigger way than I've done any beat this game so far. Not to mention your ability to just kill me.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[KingdomAces]

Yeah, no. I'll stay here, thanks.

I actually had Rooted Lance down as a move when I thought it was oSLoooo, so I'd think the same thing with that moved over a space. Probably.

[Zorblag]

Interesting. I might actually have guessed a beat after a long spell of misses then.

Though Rooted Lance is such a nice attack pair there. Unless I can stun you it's just going to hit me and that soak makes any hit I do fairly paltry (though guessing lance helps.) A rooted drive in this case did me in, but it was vulnerable to the dodge so it wasn't the guaranteed move.

With the new position it might have been better to dodge away (though it turns out that probably would have failed as I think I would have anted beyond eyes strike with that to avoid the strike clash I was more worried about,) but I need to do some damage and time is slipping away.

In any case, no pressure these last 4 beats!

-Zorblag R`Lyeh